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Americas Title: Novi Orbis Sive Totius Americae Cum Adiacentibus Insulis Nova Exhibitio. Cartographer: Weigel, Christoph Published: Nuernberg, Date: 1719. Size: [28 x 35 cm] Technic: Copper engraving / Original color. Description: Copper-engraving, handcolored in outline and wash, when published. Decorative map early 18th century map of the Americas, ornated in the lower left corner with a large decorative allegoric and figurative title catouche. California is shown as an island. The cartographer Christoph Weigel worked around 1719 in Nuernberg and his maps are showing the typical style of this period in mapmaking in Southern German. He worked very close as with Johann B. Homann in Nuernberg. All his maps were handcolored in outline and decorative body color immediatelly in his printing house, after they were printed. Notes: In very good condition. Condition: VG Reference: Price: /
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